# Report 2021-09

## News

 - [FBI Spy Planes Monitored a Single Suspect for Nearly 429 Hours](https://theintercept.com/2021/09/01/fbi-spy-plane-alazhari-surveillance/)
 - [WhatsApp issued second-largest GDPR fine of €225m](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58422465)
 - [Turkey fines WhatsApp €197,000 over controversial privacy update](https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/03/turkey-fines-whatsapp-197-000-over-controversial-privacy-update)
 - [Someone could be tracking you through your headphones](https://nrkbeta.no/2021/09/02/someone-could-be-tracking-you-through-your-headphones/)
 - [Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/revealed-los-angeles-police-officers-gathering-social-media)
 - [The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Monitoring Online Purchases of Inmates’ Family and Friends](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/prison-surveillance-catalog-monitoring-online-purchases-inmates-family-and-friends)
 - [Popular iPhone apps are using sneaky techniques to identify you even if you say no to tracking](https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/23/popular-iphone-apps-digital-fingerprints/)
 - [London is buying heaps of facial recognition tech](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/met-police-facial-recognition-new)
 - [ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move](https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-media-police-microsoft-shadowdragon-kaseware/)
 - [Popular Android apps with 142.5 million collective installs leak user data](https://cybernews.com/security/research-popular-android-apps-with-142-5-million-collective-downloads-are-leaking-user-data/)
 - [There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data](https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibillion-dollar-market-for-your-phones-location-data)

## Data Breaches

 - [Database containing personal info of 106 million international visitors to Thailand was exposed online](https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/thai-traveler-data-leak/)
 - [Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/anonymous-leaks-gigabytes-of-data-from-epik-web-host-of-gab-and-parler/)
 - [Portpass app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/portpass-privacy-breach-1.6191749)
 - [Navistar confirms data breach involved employee healthcare information](https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/navistar-confirms-data-breach-involved-employee-healthcare-information)

## Paper/Report

 - [Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13722)
